From the Mist
New poetry collection out now! I am delighted to share that a new poetry collection, From the Mist, is now available. Kookaburras welcome a broken poet home, and jacarandas weep with her [...]
Return to life
Easter Day reflections Pulling the lens wider The resurrection of Jesus is told often with a sense of immediacy – whiz – bang – blinding light and earth-shattering suddenness [...]
Holy Week poetry
Holy Week: Tuesday Pray the Story has been a project, a practice, of composing prayer-poems (poetic prayers or prayerful poems) in response to biblical compositions. At various times I have read these [...]
Where is Peter?: Palm Sunday reflections
Reflection for Christ Church Uniting, 10 March 2024 with Matthew 16:21–23 and 'Wandering Heart' by A Sanctified Art Through Lent we have been hearing Peter’s story of life with Jesus. And [...]
Faith enough: Lent 4 reflections
Reflection for Christ Church Uniting, 10 March 2024 with Matthew 16:21–23 and 'Wandering Heart' by A Sanctified Art Hesitation Again, we hear from Hannah Garrity: Peter ‘worries about human things. How [...]
Say it clear: Lent 3 reflections
Reflection for Christ Church Uniting, 3 March 2024 with Psalm 19 & Matthew 16:13–20 and 'Wandering Heart' by A Sanctified Art Who others say Jesus is Peter says ‘You are the Messiah. [...]
Then I remembered
Holy Week Stories with Christ Church Uniting and The Effective Living Centre Three stories, for Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of Holy Week. Listen to or read one a day as a meditation if [...]
Meeting Jesus: Lent 1 reflections
Reflection for Christ Church Uniting, 18 February 2024 with Luke (4:38–41), 5:1–11 and 'Wandering Heart' by A Sanctified Art Encounters Through Lent, our congregation is travelling with the disciple, Peter, entering [...]
Australian Women Preach
Lent 2 - Jesus transfigured I met some of the team behind Australian Women Preach, at a conference in Melbourne last year. The team invited me to present a reflection / homily / [...]
Worthy of the Name
Reflection for Christ Church Uniting, 22 October 2023 with Exodus 33:12–23 and 1 Thess 1:1–10 For what we may be remembered 1 Thessalonians 1:1–10 Dear Holy One, as [...]
Holding Light together
Minister's reply – service of induction to Christ Church Uniting, Wayville Being from a family of teachers, one of the gifts I have received is an insatiable desire to learn. [...]
I incline my heart
Reflecting on Psalm 119:105–112 and Matthew 13:1–9 Falling seeds Listen. Life scatters seeds indiscriminately. Seeds of hope, of peace, of kindness; seeds of joy, of love, of wisdom. Falling [...]
